
Classic Beef Stroganoff
Russia's most famous export — tender strips of beef sautéed with mushrooms and onions in a silky sour cream sauce, served over egg noodles or rice.
Stroganoff de ternera, borscht, pelmeni: rica y cálida cocina de Europa del Este.
La cocina rusa fue diseñada por el clima: una corta temporada de cultivo y largos inviernos construyeron una cocina en torno a pan de centeno, verduras en conserva, kasha (gachas de trigo sarraceno) y la estufa de mampostería (el pech), cuyo calor lento y descendente dio forma a una preferencia nacional por los estofados, las gachas horneadas y las sopas en lugar de las frituras. La lactofermentación está en todas partes: chucrut, pepinillos en salmuera (no en vinagre) y kvas, la bebida de pan de centeno fermentado que también sirve como base para la sopa fría de okroshka en verano.
El repertorio se divide entre líneas campesinas y aristocráticas. El canon campesino ofrece shchi (sopa de repollo), borscht (compartido con Ucrania, de donde es originario), pelmeni de los Urales y bliny servido con smetana. La aristocracia del siglo XIX, empleando chefs franceses, producía carne de res Stroganoff, sharlotka y ensaladas en capas (sobre todo la ensalada Olivier) que todavía dominan la mesa de Nochevieja, la fiesta gastronómica más importante del año ruso.
La cocina casera sigue siendo sopa (una comida adecuada del mediodía comienza con una sopa caliente casi todo el año) y está saturada de eneldo, con smetana (crema agria) en todo, desde borscht hasta pelmeni. La tradición zakuski de aperitivos fríos (encurtidos, pescado curado, ensaladas) que acompañan al vodka estructura las comidas festivas, y el té del samovar con varenye (conservas de frutas) las cierra, un ritual que data de la llegada del té en el siglo XVII a través del comercio con China.
sopas
Borscht, shchi, solyanka y ukha constituyen la comida diaria; un plato de sopa caliente en el almuerzo sigue siendo estándar en los hogares rusos durante todo el año.
Fermentación y decapado
Los pepinos, el chucrut y el kvas fermentados en salmuera reflejan una tradición de conservación que aporta acidez y vitaminas durante el invierno.
Pelmeni y masas rellenas
Las albóndigas de carne siberianas, los vareniki y los pirozhki (bollos rellenos horneados o fritos) forman una vasta familia de masa rellena en todo el antiguo imperio.
Kasha y centeno
El kasha de trigo sarraceno y el pan denso de masa madre de centeno son la columna vertebral histórica de carbohidratos, horneados al fuego lento de la tradicional estufa pech.
Smetana y lácteos
La crema agria completa las sopas, adereza las albóndigas y enriquece la repostería; tvorog (queso de granjero) rellena tortitas syrniki y bollos vatrushka.
mesa zakuski
La variedad de aperitivos fríos (pepinillos, arenque, ensalada Olivier, pescado curado) abre las comidas festivas y tradicionalmente acompaña al vodka.
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La cocina rusa es conocida por sopas abundantes como borscht y shchi, albóndigas pelmeni, ternera Stroganoff, bliny con crema agria o caviar y una fuerte tradición de encurtido y fermentación. Es una comida reconfortante de clima frío elaborada a base de pan de centeno, trigo sarraceno, patatas, eneldo y smetana, con rituales festivos como la mesa de aperitivos zakuski y la ensalada Olivier de Año Nuevo.
El borscht es una sopa a base de remolacha, originalmente ucraniana, que normalmente incluye repollo, patatas y, a menudo, carne de res, servida con smetana y eneldo. Shchi es la sopa de repollo nativa más antigua de Rusia, hecha con repollo fresco en verano o chucrut (entonces llamado shchi agrio) en invierno, sin remolacha. Ambas son sopas cotidianas, pero el shchi es anterior al borscht en las cocinas rusas por siglos.
Los desayunos habituales son kasha (gachas de trigo sarraceno, avena o sémola con mantequilla), syrniki (tortitas fritas de queso de granjero con smetana o mermelada), bliny o simplemente pan con mantequilla, queso y kolbasa. El té, no el café, es la bebida tradicional de la mañana. Los huevos aparecen en tortilla o pasados por agua. El desayuno tiende a ser abundante, lo que refleja el patrón de una comida abundante al mediodía.
La ensalada Olivier se prepara para preparar, no para cocinar: patatas hervidas, zanahorias, huevos, pepinillos encurtidos, guisantes y mayonesa. Syrniki solo necesita queso granjero, huevo, harina y una sartén. Beef Stroganoff es un salteado de 30 minutos con salsa de crema agria. Una olla de borscht enseña el método de la sopa en capas y mejora durante la noche. Pelmeni desde cero es un proyecto de fin de semana que vale la pena, tradicionalmente elaborado en grandes lotes y congelado.
No. La cocina tradicional rusa evita casi por completo el picante del chile; El sabor proviene del eneldo, el ajo, la pimienta negra, la hoja de laurel, el rábano picante y la mostaza; los dos últimos proporcionan picante en lugar de calor de capsaicina. La acidez de los encurtidos fermentados, el chucrut y la smetana es el acento dominante. Los platos más picantes que se encuentran en Rusia, como el kharcho georgiano o los condimentos de plov de Asia Central, se toman prestados de las cocinas vecinas.